Our terms and conditions of use

THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE. BY USING THIS WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS SET OUT BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN YOU ARE NOT AUTHORISED TO USE THIS WEBSITE.

Application of terms and conditions

The terms and conditions outlined below apply whether access to the website is purchased on its own or included as part of a package of services.

Copyright and trade marks

All website graphics, text, design, the selection and arrangement thereof and all materials on this website are the copyright of Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd or its content and technology providers. All rights reserved.

Fair use

Permission is granted to copy electronically and to print hard copy portions of this website for the sole purpose of using this website to assist you in the HR management of your own employees, workers, sub-contractors, self-employed consultants, volunteers etc.

Any other use of the copyright material on the Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd website, including using the material on the site for the benefit of other parties, whether for payment or not, is strictly prohibited without the express prior permission of Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd, usually via a Partnership Agreement. Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd will take legal action if its copyright is infringed.

is a registered trade mark of Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd.

Links

This website contains links to other websites operated by third parties. Such links are provided for your convenience only and Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of the content or use of other websites accessed via hyperlinks from this website, nor for the accuracy of information found therein. Such links are used entirely at your own risk and should not be seen as any form of endorsement by Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd of the organisations concerned.

Modification

Business Human Resources Solutions Ltd may at any time modify these terms and conditions and will post the new version on this website. Your continued use of this website constitutes your agreement to the modified terms and conditions.

Subscription

Most of our site is only accessible to subscribers.

Access

Your user ID and password are personal to your company, firm or organisation and you agree not to disclose the same to any third party nor to allow any third party to use your subscriber information to access the areas of the site reserved to subscribers only.

Guides and legal overviews

Whilst we have taken care in compiling the guides and legal overviews available on this website, they are designed for information purposes only and do not constitute legal advice.

We accept no liability for any loss suffered as a result of your use of or reliance on the guides and legal overviews or any information contained in or accessed through this website.

Forms, letters and agreements

The forms, letters and agreements available on this website have been written to comply with UK law. In many cases they will need to be adapted to take into account your specific circumstances and therefore we do not warrant that any of these documents are suitable for your specific purposes.

Helpline

Helpline subscriptions
If you bought a subscription which includes a number of helpline hours, this entitles you to obtain advice via email or telephone from the BusinessHR advisory team for the designated number of hours. The total number of hours is shown in your subscription agreement.

All helpline users
We commit to respond to your email enquiry to our helpline within one working day, and to your phone call within two working hours.

It is our standard procedure to confirm all advice given by email. The total time spent dealing with your enquiries, including preparing the summary emails, updating the details of your enquiries, following up open enquiries and providing any reports you request on your helpline usage will be recorded against your account.

Any use of our helpline for the benefit of other parties, whether for payment or not, is not authorised unless you hold a Partnership Agreement with us. Our liability is limited to our individual subscribers, not to any third parties to whom the information is passed on.

Please note: any other helplines accessed directly or indirectly via this website may be subject to the payment of separate charges for which you will be responsible.

Liability

We undertake to provide the services offered on this website with reasonable care and skill and to use our reasonable endeavours to correct any errors in the services as promptly as possible. We do not warrant that availability or delivery of the services will be uninterrupted or error-free.

In the event that we fail to comply with our undertaking above, having been given a reasonable opportunity to correct such failure, our aggregate liability to you for all losses, damages, costs and claims and expenses howsoever arising shall not exceed the total subscription fee paid by you in respect of the twelve month period prior to the date on which such failure occurred.

In no event will we be liable to you for:

• any consequential or indirect loss or damage (whether for loss of profits, including loss of profits or anticipated profits on contracts, business revenue, goodwill or otherwise) howsoever arising out of or in connection with your use of this website and its contents, or our helpline or
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• any loss, damages, costs, claims or expenses incurred as a result of any customisation of or amendment made by you to any of the template documents available on this site.

If a court or any other body having the power to rule on disputes, decides that any part of these Terms and Conditions is not reasonable or cannot be enforced, this will not affect the validity of other parts of these Terms and Conditions which will continue in full force and effect.

Refunds

Refunds will be given at the discretion of the company management.

Governing law

These terms and conditions and your use of the website are governed by English law and you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.